HDbyJustin

I swap between Revit and CA, depending on whether I am at my full time job or my side hustle. One thing I do in Revit is to add some shadows to the floor plan views. It looks great when printed. What is the easiest way to do this in CA?

.... it would have helped to spell zeros correctly. Its about hour 14 of my work day so I am burning out. Thank you for the help.

Yes, I can. It is doing everything I want except it is dropping that trailing zero. I believe someone on here shows one using show_leading_zero and it worked but show_trailing_zero doesn't.

I have made a simple macro to show the ceiling height for a selected room. It is not showing the trailing zero. I am attaching my macro below. Any thoughts? height = room.finished_ceiling_elevation - room.finished_floor_elevation nf = NumberFormatter.new nf.unit = "'-\"" nf.use_fractions = true nf.apply (height)

I have been a draftsman for 16 years and ran a home design business for the last 8. I also just opened my own cabinet shop where I handle the design work. I can tell you there are better options for cabinet drawings. Mozaik, KCD, eCabinets, Cabinet Vision. These will give you cut lists and door/drawer sizes for production or ordering. I used Chief momentarily to knock out some renderings fast, but it is definitely not a long term solution. I have run eCabinets for 4 years for production cabinetry and am in the process of switching to KCD. I would definitely look in to some of the options I mentioned above to help improve effeciency.

I just installed X13 and have been previously running X12 for the past year or so. I am aware of the new rendering requirements and I am ok with no ray tracing and things like that. Basic elevations would be handy for the time being. I am on the hunt for a GTX 960 video card locally. I was not expecting to have to upgrade video cards at this time.

Everything was working great on X12. Same system other than upgrading to 16gb of memory and putting a 500 gb solid state drive in. I will try to give tech support a call tomorrow and see what can be done or needs to be done.

I am attaching (2) photos below with the specs to my video card and my system. I am getting the error at start up that says I can't create 3d views due to my card not being supported. I believe it meets the minimum specs so I am not sure where else to look.

Is there a way to center justify the auto label for elevations/plans that are on the layout page? To further explain, I use the automatic label and the box scale macros but I would like to center justify them. I didn't see a way to do that, but I may be overlooking it.

Late to the party, but I am about 30 min. from Dothan. I have been using X12 for a while.

What has everyone been doing for displaying plumbing fixtures on the 0 floor? I had been dong a copy/paste hold location setup. Is there a better way to do this?

I needed to line up a manual dimension with an automatic dimension for some scenarios. I just don't like where it puts some of the auto dimensions. A designer I am working with now wants all of the dimensions to line up on each view so that there is continuity between the sheets. I just wanted to have an easy/quick way to ensure they line up.

I have an odd situation. I need to snap to the end of a dimension line. I checked my snap preferences. I am not sure this is a capability, but maybe someone has a solution. I have been just trying to line the crosshairs on my pointer to line up with the dimension/extension lines. Slow but it works.

The architect I am moonlighting for wants the title sheet to be rotated 90° to the rest of the sheets. I am not sure this is possible without creating a new layout just to have the title sheet be in the correct orientation. Is this an accurate assumption?

I am, but all of the electrical symbols appear to be small. For example the smoke detector 2d symbol, the door chime 2d symbol.

Hey everybody. I am learning a lot in Chief Premier x12 and I am amazed I didn't make this switch sooner. I have a question regarding resizing the 2d symbols for electrical plan. They seem small but I am not 100% sure how to adjust it.

I have attached a pdf of the plan they sent to me to review and match. 20200131_LIUM_Blount_Revised.pdf

Thank you guys for the replies. It is a bit unusual. It is for a contractor that had a previous drafting firm handling drawings in AutoCad. They have come to me to not only maintain their standard plans, but to also make revisions for specific clients. I am just trying to match the previous drawings.

Hello everybody. I have recently made the jump from the Home Designer Pro series to Premier X12. I have a client that wants the windows to be labeled with letters instead of numbers. I have not seen a way to change that but am I missing something?